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A consistent specification test for dynamic quantile models 动态分位数模型的一致性规范测试
IF 1.8 3区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.3982/qe1727
Peter Horvath, Jia Li, Z. Liao, Andrew J. Patton
Correct specification of a conditional quantile model implies that a particular conditional moment is equal to zero. We nonparametrically estimate the conditional moment function via series regression and test whether it is identically zero using uniform functional inference. Our approach is theoretically justified via a strong Gaussian approximation for statistics of growing dimensions in a general time series setting. We propose a novel bootstrap method in this nonstandard context and show that it significantly outperforms the benchmark asymptotic approximation in finite samples, especially for tail quantiles such as Value‐at‐Risk (VaR). We use the proposed new test to study the VaR and CoVaR (Adrian and Brunnermeier (2016)) of a collection of US financial institutions.
条件分位数模型的正确规范意味着特定的条件矩等于零。通过序列回归对条件矩函数进行非参数估计,并利用一致泛函推理检验其是否为同零。我们的方法在理论上是合理的,通过对一般时间序列设置中增长维度的统计的强高斯近似。在这种非标准环境下,我们提出了一种新的自举方法,并表明它在有限样本中显著优于基准渐近逼近,特别是对于尾部分位数,如Value - at - Risk (VaR)。我们使用提出的新测试来研究一组美国金融机构的VaR和CoVaR (Adrian and Brunnermeier(2016))。
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引用次数: 3
Earnings dynamics and labor market reforms: The Italian case 收入动态和劳动力市场改革:意大利案例
IF 1.8 3区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.3982/qe1865
Eran B. Hoffmann, Davide Malacrinò, Luigi Pistaferri
This paper summarizes statistics on the key aspects of the distribution of earnings levels and earnings changes using administrative (social security) data from Italy between 1985 and 2016. During the time covered by our data, earnings inequality and earnings volatility increased, while earnings mobility did not change significantly. We connect these trends with some salient facts about the Italian labor market, in particular the labor market reforms of the 1990s and 2000s, which induced a substantial rise in fixed‐term and part‐time employment. The rise in part‐time work explains much of the rise in earnings inequality, while the rise in fixed‐term contracts explains much of the rise in volatility. Both of these trends affect the earnings distribution through hours worked: part‐time jobs reduce hours worked within a week, while fixed‐term contracts reduce the number of weeks worked during the year as well as increase their volatility. We only find weak evidence that fixed‐term contracts represent a “stepping‐stone” to permanent employment. Finally, we offer suggestive evidence that the labor market reforms contributed to the slowdown in labor productivity in Italy by delaying human capital accumulation (in the form of general and firm‐specific experience) of recent cohorts.
本文利用意大利1985年至2016年间的行政(社会保障)数据,总结了收入水平分布和收入变化的关键方面的统计数据。在我们的数据覆盖的时间内,收入不平等和收入波动性增加,而收入流动性没有显著变化。我们将这些趋势与意大利劳动力市场的一些突出事实联系起来,特别是20世纪90年代和21世纪初的劳动力市场改革,这导致了固定期限和兼职就业的大幅增加。兼职工作的增加在很大程度上解释了收入不平等的加剧,而固定期限合同的增加在很大程度上解释了波动性的上升。这两种趋势都通过工作时间影响收入分配:兼职工作减少了一周内的工作时间,而固定期限合同减少了一年中工作的周数,并增加了其波动性。我们只找到了微弱的证据,证明固定期限合同是永久就业的“垫脚石”。最后,我们提供了具有启发性的证据,表明劳动力市场改革推迟了近期人群的人力资本积累(以一般和企业特定经验的形式),从而导致了意大利劳动生产率的放缓。
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引用次数: 2
Like father, like son: Occupational choice, intergenerational persistence and misallocation 有其父必有其子:职业选择、代际坚持和分配不当
IF 1.8 3区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.3982/qe1375
Salvatore Lo Bello, Iacopo Morchio
We develop a dynamic quantitative model of occupational choice and search frictions with multiple channels of intergenerational transmission (comparative advantage, social contacts, and preferences), and use it to decompose the occupational persistence observed in the UK. In the model, workers who choose their father's occupation find jobs faster and earn lower wages, which is consistent with patterns found in UK data. Quantitatively, parental networks account for 79% of total persistence. Shutting down parental networks or the transmission of preferences improves the allocation of workers, and thus yields welfare gains, while removing the transmission of comparative advantage generates welfare losses.
我们建立了一个动态定量的职业选择和搜索摩擦的多代传递渠道(比较优势、社会联系和偏好)模型,并用它来分解在英国观察到的职业持久性。在该模型中,选择父亲职业的工人找到工作的速度更快,工资也更低,这与英国数据中的模式一致。在数量上,亲代网络占总持久性的79%。关闭父母网络或偏好的传递改善了工人的分配,从而产生了福利收益,而消除比较优势的传递则产生了福利损失。
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引用次数: 10
The extended perturbation method: With applications to the New Keynesian model and the zero lower bound 扩展摄动法:及其在新凯恩斯模型和零下界中的应用
IF 1.8 3区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.3982/qe1102
Martin M. Andreasen, Anders F. Kronborg
We introduce the extended perturbation method, which improves the accuracy of standard perturbation by reducing approximation errors under certainty equivalence. For the New Keynesian model with Calvo pricing, extended perturbation is more accurate than standard perturbation, which implies explosive dynamics because it omits the upper bound on inflation implied by this model. In contrast, extended perturbation enforces this bound and generates stable dynamics. We also show that extended perturbation can accurately solve a New Keynesian model that enforces the zero lower bound for the monetary policy rate by considering a smooth nonlinear modification of the standard Taylor rule.
引入扩展摄动法,通过减小确定性等价下的近似误差,提高了标准摄动的精度。对于卡尔沃定价的新凯恩斯模型,扩展扰动比标准扰动更准确,标准扰动意味着爆炸性动力学,因为它忽略了该模型所隐含的通货膨胀的上界。相反,扩展摄动强化了这一界限并产生稳定的动力学。我们还表明,通过考虑标准泰勒规则的光滑非线性修正,扩展扰动可以准确地求解强制货币政策利率为零下限的新凯恩斯模型。
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引用次数: 0
Peso problems in the estimation of the C‐CAPM C - CAPM估计中的比索问题
IF 1.8 3区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.3982/qe1478
Juan Carlos Parra-Alvarez, Olaf Posch, Andreas Schrimpf
This paper shows that the consumption‐based capital asset pricing model (C‐CAPM) with low‐probability disaster risk rationalizes pricing errors. We find that implausible estimates of risk aversion and time preference are not puzzling if market participants expect a future catastrophic change in fundamentals, which just happens not to occur in the sample (a “peso problem”). A bias in structural parameter estimates emerges as a result of pricing errors in quiet times. While the bias essentially removes the pricing error in the simple models when risk‐free rates are constant, time‐variation may also generate large and persistent estimated pricing errors in simulated data. We also show analytically how the problem of biased estimates can be avoided in empirical research by resolving the misspecification in moment conditions.
本文表明,考虑低概率灾害风险的基于消费的资本资产定价模型(C - CAPM)合理化了定价误差。我们发现,如果市场参与者预期未来基本面会发生灾难性变化(“比索问题”),那么对风险厌恶和时间偏好的难以置信的估计并不令人费解。由于安静时期的定价错误,结构参数估计出现偏差。虽然当无风险利率恒定时,偏差基本上消除了简单模型中的定价误差,但时间变化也可能在模拟数据中产生大而持久的估计定价误差。我们还分析地展示了如何通过解决力矩条件下的错误规范来避免实证研究中有偏估计的问题。
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引用次数: 1
Earnings dynamics of immigrants and natives in Sweden 1985–2016 1985-2016年瑞典移民和本地人的收入动态
IF 1.8 3区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.3982/qe1854
Benjamin U. Friedrich, Lisa Laun, C. Meghir
This paper analyzes earnings inequality and earnings dynamics in Sweden over 1985–2016. The deep recession in the early 1990s marks a historic turning point with a massive increase in earnings inequality and earnings volatility, and the impact of the recession and the recovery from it lasted for decades. In the aftermath of the recession, we find steady growth in real earnings across the entire distribution for men and women and decreasing inequality over more than 20 years. Despite the positive trend, large gender differences in earnings dynamics persist. While earnings growth for men is more closely tied to the business cycle, women face much higher volatility overall. Earnings volatility is also substantially higher among foreign‐born workers, reflecting weaker labor market attachment and high risk of large negative shocks for low‐income immigrants. We document an important role of social benefits usage for the overall trends and for differences across subpopulations. Higher benefits enrollment, especially for women and immigrants, is associated with higher earnings volatility. As the generosity and usage of benefit programs declined over time, we find stronger earnings growth among low‐income workers, consistent with higher self‐sufficiency.
本文分析了1985-2016年瑞典的收入不平等和收入动态。20世纪90年代初的深度衰退标志着一个历史性的转折点,收入不平等和收入波动大幅增加,经济衰退的影响和复苏持续了几十年。在经济衰退之后,我们发现20多年来,男性和女性的实际收入在整个分配中稳步增长,不平等现象在减少。尽管出现了积极的趋势,但收入动态方面的巨大性别差异仍然存在。虽然男性的收入增长与商业周期的关系更为密切,但女性面临的总体波动性要大得多。在外国出生的工人中,收入波动也明显更高,反映出较弱的劳动力市场依附和低收入移民面临重大负面冲击的高风险。我们记录了社会福利使用对总体趋势和亚群体差异的重要作用。更高的福利登记率,尤其是女性和移民,与更高的收入波动性有关。随着时间的推移,福利计划的慷慨度和使用率下降,我们发现低收入工人的收入增长更强劲,这与更高的自给自足相一致。
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引用次数: 3
Economic uncertainty and structural reforms: Evidence from stock market volatility 经济不确定性与结构性改革:来自股市波动的证据
IF 1.8 3区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.3982/qe1551
Alessandra Bonfiglioli, Rosario Crinó, G. Gancia
Does economic uncertainty promote the implementation of structural reforms? We answer this question using one of the most exhaustive cross‐country panel data sets on reforms in six major areas and measuring economic uncertainty with stock market volatility. To identify causality, we exploit exogenous differential variation in countries' exposure to foreign volatility shocks due to predetermined and time‐invariant bilateral characteristics. Across all specifications, we find that stock market volatility has a positive and significant effect on the adoption of reforms. This result is robust to the inclusion of a large number of controls, such as political variables, economic variables, crisis indicators, and a host of country, reform and time fixed effects, as well as across various approaches for accommodating heterogeneous trends and contemporaneous shocks. Overall, this evidence suggests that times of market turmoil, which are characterized by a high degree of uncertainty, may facilitate the implementation of reforms that would otherwise not pass.
经济不确定性是否会促进结构性改革的实施?我们使用六个主要领域改革的最详尽的跨国面板数据集之一来回答这个问题,并通过股市波动来衡量经济不确定性。为了确定因果关系,我们利用由于预定和时间不变的双边特征而导致的各国暴露于外国波动冲击的外生差异变化。在所有指标中,我们发现股票市场波动对改革的采用具有显著的积极影响。在纳入大量控制因素(如政治变量、经济变量、危机指标和一系列国家、改革和时间固定效应)以及适应异质趋势和同期冲击的各种方法后,这一结果是稳健的。总的来说,这一证据表明,以高度不确定性为特征的市场动荡时期,可能会促进实施否则不会通过的改革。
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引用次数: 4
Child work and cognitive development: Results from four low to middle income countries 儿童工作与认知发展:来自四个中低收入国家的结果
IF 1.8 3区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.3982/qe1745
Michael P. Keane, Sonya Krutikova, Timothy Neal
We study the impact of child work on cognitive development in four Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries. We advance the literature by using cognitive test scores collected regardless of school attendance. We also address a key gap in the literature by controlling for children's complete time allocation budget. This allows us to estimate effects of different types of work, like chores and market/farm work, relative to specific alternative time‐uses, like school or study or play/leisure. Our results show child work is more detrimental to child development to the extent that it crowds out school/study time rather than leisure. We also show the adverse effect of time spent on domestic chores is similar to time spent on market and farm work, provided they both crowd out school/study time. Thus, policies to enhance child development should target a shift from all forms of work toward educational activities.
我们研究了四个低收入和中等收入国家儿童工作对认知发展的影响。我们通过使用无论上学与否收集的认知测试分数来推进文献。我们还通过控制儿童的完整时间分配预算来解决文献中的一个关键差距。这使我们能够估计不同类型的工作的影响,如家务和市场/农场工作,相对于特定的替代时间利用,如学校或学习或娱乐/休闲。我们的研究结果表明,儿童工作对儿童的发展更有害,因为它挤占了上学/学习的时间,而不是休闲时间。我们还表明,如果花在家务上的时间挤占了上学/学习的时间,那么花在家务上的时间的负面影响与花在市场和农场上的时间相似。因此,促进儿童发展的政策应以从各种形式的工作转向教育活动为目标。
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引用次数: 6
Consumption peer effects and utility needs in India 印度的消费对等效应与公用事业需求
IF 1.8 3区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.3982/qe1760
Arthur Lewbel, S. Norris, K. Pendakur, X. Qu
We construct a peer effects model where mean expenditures of consumers in one's peer group affect utility through perceived consumption needs. We provide a novel method for obtaining identification in social interactions models like ours, using ordinary survey data, where very few members of each peer group are observed. We implement the model using standard household‐level consumer expenditure survey microdata from India. We find that each additional rupee spent by one's peers increases perceived needs, and thereby reduces one's utility, by the equivalent of a 0.25 rupee decrease in one's own expenditures. These peer costs may be larger for richer households, meaning transfers from rich to poor could improve even inequality‐neutral social welfare, by reducing peer consumption externalities. We show welfare gains of billions of dollars per year might be possible by replacing government transfers of private goods to households with providing public goods or services, to reduce peer effects.
我们构建了一个同伴效应模型,其中消费者在同伴群体中的平均支出通过感知消费需求影响效用。我们提供了一种新的方法,在像我们这样的社会互动模型中获得识别,使用普通的调查数据,其中每个同伴组的成员很少被观察到。我们使用来自印度的标准家庭级消费者支出调查微观数据来实现该模型。我们发现,一个人的同伴每多花一卢比,他的感知需求就会增加,从而减少了他的效用,相当于他自己的支出减少了0.25卢比。对于较富裕的家庭来说,这些对等成本可能更大,这意味着从富人到穷人的转移可以通过减少对等消费的外部性来改善不平等中性的社会福利。我们表明,通过提供公共产品或服务,取代政府向家庭转移私人物品,以减少对等效应,每年可能获得数十亿美元的福利收益。
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引用次数: 5
Inequality and earnings dynamics in France: National policies and local consequences 法国的不平等和收入动态:国家政策和地方后果
IF 1.8 3区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.3982/qe1876
F. Kramarz, Elio Nimier-David, Thomas Delemotte
This paper provides new stylized facts about labor earnings inequality and dynamics in France for the period 1991–2016. Using linked employer–employee data, we show that (i) labor inequality in France is low compared to other developed countries and has been decreasing until the financial crisis of 2009 and increasing since then, (ii) women experienced high earnings growth, in particular at the bottom of the distribution, in contrast to the stability observed for men. Both result from a decrease in labor costs at the minimum wage and an increase in the hourly minimum in the aftermath of the 35h workweek policy, (iii) top earnings (top 5 and 1%) grew moderately while very top earnings (top 0.1 and 0.01%) experienced a much higher growth, (iv) inequality between and within cohorts follow the same U‐shaped pattern as global inequality: it decreased before 2009 and then increased until 2016, (v) Individual earnings mobility is stable between 1991 and 2016, and very low at the top of the distribution, (vi) the distribution of earnings growth is negatively skewed, leptokurtic, and varies with age. Then, studying earnings dispersion both within and between territories, we document strong differences across cities as well as between urban and rural areas, even after controlling for observable characteristics. We also observe a continuous decrease in earnings inequality between territories. However, a larger inflation in rural territories mitigates this convergence. Finally, we document a strong reduction in inequality within rural and remote territories, again driven by changes at the bottom of the wage distribution.
本文提供了1991-2016年期间法国劳动收入不平等和动态的新风格化事实。通过使用相关的雇主-雇员数据,我们发现(i)与其他发达国家相比,法国的劳动不平等程度较低,并且在2009年金融危机之前一直在下降,此后一直在上升;(ii)与男性的稳定相比,女性的收入增长较快,尤其是在收入分布的底部。两者都是由于最低工资的劳动力成本下降和每周工作35小时政策之后最低时薪的增加,(iii)最高收入(前5%和1%)适度增长,而最高收入(前0.1%和0.01%)经历了更高的增长,(iv)群体之间和群体内部的不平等遵循与全球不平等相同的U形模式。个人收入流动性在1991年至2016年之间保持稳定,在分布的顶部非常低,(vi)收入增长的分布呈负偏态,呈细峰分布,并随年龄变化。然后,研究区域内和区域间的收入差异,我们记录了城市之间以及城市和农村地区之间的巨大差异,即使在控制了可观察特征之后。我们还观察到地区之间的收入不平等在持续减少。然而,农村地区较大的通货膨胀减缓了这种趋同。最后,我们记录了农村和偏远地区不平等的大幅减少,这也是由工资分配底部的变化推动的。
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